A moment of clarity in my Guild Geekdom!

[plaidseason]

Approx 8:00 pm EST, Thursday November 19, 2009

Scene: My living room, southeastern Connecticut.

My wife: What are looking at?

Me: Umm some old Guild guitar catalogs from the late 1990's

My wife: Seriously?

Me: Seriously

My wife: What are those yellow envelopes?

Me: That's how I store the catalogs.

My wife: seriously?

Me: seriously

After that I walked slowly, laughing partially from amusement and partially from embarrassement.

-Chris

p.s. As an aside, earlier in the evening I showed my six year old a picture of the Westerly plant and asked her if she knew what the building in the picture was. She looked at me incredulously and said "Of course I do!" She knows because I took her there on one of our summer day trips. On that particular day we stopped at the Sub Force museum, historic Fort Trumbull, and yes the old Guild factory.

 

[killdeer43]

Yep, you're a goner, and a Guilded goner to boot. But I won't subscribe to the 'geek' tag. We LTG'ers are way too cool to be....geeks! 8)

My wife is always 'catching me' reading Hans' book and her question is usually, "Didn't you already read that one?" What can I say? :wink:

Joe

 

[chazmo]

Nuthin' wrong with that, plaid! I paid cash money for an ad from a magazine in 1980 that someone had cut out and put on eBay. The conversation that ensued with my wife was rather similar to yours.

That's precious about your daughter. She'll grow up to be a Guild geek too!

 

[adorshki]

My wife is always 'catching me' reading Hans' book and her question is usually, "Didn't you already read that one?" What can I say? :wink:

Joe

And I'm sure millions of significant others out there ask their mates the same question about vintage Playboys too! :lol:

 

[guildzilla]

Wives don't understand the concept of case candy, either.

Guitar brochures are best kept secret and read only on the toilet. :roll:

 

[killdeer43]

My wife is always 'catching me' reading Hans' book and her question is usually, "Didn't you already read that one?" What can I say? :wink:

Joe

And I'm sure millions of significant others out there ask their mates the same question about vintage Playboys too! :lol:

Love those great articles in Playboy! :wink:

Joe

 

[Dr. Spivey]

My girlfriend pretends to be interested in guitars. She has even learned to spot Guilds. She has this fantasy that someday I will go to the mall with her. I will, if someday she owns the mall. :mrgreen:

 

[Ian]

My wife is always 'catching me' reading Hans' book and her question is usually, "Didn't you already read that one?" What can I say? :wink:

Joe

And I'm sure millions of significant others out there ask their mates the same question about vintage Playboys too! :lol:

Love those great articles in Playboy! :wink:

Joe

What about those great HiFi adverts from the 70's, usually for ginormous receivers with lots of switches and VU meters !! Those were the days....

 

[plaidseason]

I'm also a big fan of bicycle catalogs and so my wife knows two terms: "guitar porn" and "bike porn." I guess she hadn't realized that it was just the current stuff that "aroused" my interest.

-Chris

 

[jp]

I'm also a big fan of bicycle catalogs and so my wife knows two terms: "guitar porn" and "bike porn." I guess she hadn't realized that it was just the current stuff that "aroused" my interest.

-Chris

That's so funny. I'm into those too. I'm always gawking at Sheldon Brown's old Bridgestone scans, TR Findley's Schwinn catalogs, and the vintage Trek site. The Retro Raleigh site is gone though.

 

[killdeer43]

"I just found out yesterday that Linda goes to Mars,
everytime I sit and look at pictures of used cars.
She turns on the TV and sits there in her chair,
and looks at me across the room as if she didn't care."

John Prine

See, we're not alone, :wink:
Joe

 

[Pike]

I will, if someday she owns the mall.

Ha! No kiddin' Dr Spivey...:lol:

 

[fronobulax]

Wives don't understand the concept of case candy, either.

Guitar brochures are best kept secret and read only on the toilet. :roll:

Which is why the person selling several Guild catalogs scanned to a CD is not selling many CDs...

 

[fronobulax]

Love those great articles in Playboy! :wink:

The COO of the company I once worked for was talking at a breakfast meeting about "professional reading". He had been a shuttle astronaut. He starts reading and it is obviously an article about one of the missions he flew. Then he lets a paper slip and the magazine he is reading from was Playboy. So yeah, there are people who actually can and do pay attention to the articles